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Please see below contact details for all our member firms or for more information about your local MGI firm click on the relevant website links to get further details.

For all enquiries relating to MGI Australasia, please contact our Regional Director, Caterina Sullivan.

Our Offices

MGI Adelaide

212 Greenhill Road,
Eastwood SA 5063

PH: +61 8 8299 8888

Fax:

http://www.mgiadelaide.com

MGI +MORE

Level 3
27 Bath Street,
Parnell, Auckland 1052

PH: +64 800 946 4626

Fax:

http://www.mgiplusmore.co.nz/

MGI Cairns

225 Sheridan Street,
Cairns North

PH: +61 7 4047 4000

Fax:

http://www.mgicairns.com.au

MGI Joyce|Dickson

Level 1
65 Canberra Avenue,
Griffith ACT 2603

PH: +61 2 6162 2600

Fax:

http://www.mgijd.com.au

MGI Gold Coast

Ground Floor,
64 Marine Parade,
Southport, QLD 4215,
Australia

PH: +61 7 5591 1661

Fax:

http://www.mgisq.com.au

MGI Parkinson

Level 1,
322 Hay Street,
Subiaco, WA 6008

PH: +61 8 9388 9744

Fax:

http://www.mgiparkinson.com.au

MGI South Queensland

Level 1,
200 Mary Street,
Brisbane, QLD 4000,
Australia

PH: +61 7 3002 4800

Fax:

http://www.mgisq.com.au

MGI Sydney

Level 14
20 Martin Place
SYDNEY NSW 2000

PH: +61 2 9230 9200

Fax:

www.mgisyd.com.au

MGI Dobbyn Carafa

Level 15,
412 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004

PH: +61 3 9069 7700

Fax:

www.mgidc.com.au

Enquiries

As business owners we all want to create a growing and thriving business.

However the reality is that some of us manage to achieve this while others seem to potter on in a hard-earned but stagnant existence.

I recently ran a workshop with 15 high growth businesses and we discussed just this. After much debate it became clear that every successful organisation we could name had a very certain and passionate purpose and a clear vision.

I don’t mean the text book statement of purpose that we all learn about in our university days either.

Let me explain.

Each great business understood exactly why they existed and could articulate what it was that made their teams turn up to work each morning.

For example:

Oxfam exists to create a just world without poverty.

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation exists to create a world free of MS.

Temple and Webster exists to be Australia’s most beautiful shopping experience for the home.

These statements aren’t the voluminous, meaningless waffle that we were traditionally taught a statement of purpose should contain or that you so often see hanging on a company’s wall.

They are a clear one sentence statement that describes what it is that is driving the business.

Understanding the why factor

I watched a TED talk by expert Simon Sinek which explains this further. Click here to view this talk.

Sinek argued that people don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. Meaning they buy on emotion and then rationalise it with logic.

And yet most businesses focus their marketing communication on non-emotional things like facts and features.

This is because most businesses know what they do but very few know why they do it.

So where does this leave you if you are like many of the business owners I meet and haven’t thought about the very reason your business exists?

As the year draws to a close take the time to reflect on your purpose and vision

  1. Start by reviewing your ‘why’/purpose
    Your why is the inherent driver for you and your business. It is not to make a profit. That is the outcome of doing what you do but it is not why you do what you do. If you are struggling with clarifying ‘why’ your business exists consider using a mind mapping process to expand your mind and provide focus and clarity.
  2. Use your purpose to help define your vision.
    The next step is to develop your vision. If your purpose talks to your heart, your vision talks to your brain. It describes the long-term desired change that results from your organisation’s work and provides a mandate that all work can be measured against. This is your inspiration for rallying your troops. In other words it captures exactly where you are heading to achieve your purpose.
  3. Use both your purpose and vision to guide everything you do
    Your vision should set the direction for how you interact with staff, market to your customers and the criteria you use to make decisions.

Fine-tuning your vision into something that is inspirational can be a real challenge. But with so few businesses really understanding why they exist – this is an opportunity to stand out from the crowd and is the first step in building a growing business.

Of course developing your vision is just the first step to creating a high growth business. In our next newsletter we will discuss how to turn your vision into action.

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